Information theory

With so many terms available to define the same thing, it would seem nearly irresponsible to introduce yet another term (complex situation) to describe a phenomenological state of such as a system.

Non-equilibrium thermodynamics is a general framework that allows the macroscopic description of irreversible processes.

The 4th FTRA International Conference on Information Technology Convergence and Services (ITCS-12) will be held in Gwangju, Korea on September 6 - 8, 2012.

Decision makers in large scale interconnected network systems require simulation models for decision support.

Our book introduces a method to evaluate the accuracy of trend estimation algorithms under conditions similar to those encountered in real time series processing.

Origin(s) of Design in Nature is a collection of over 40 articles from prominent researchers in the life, physical, and social sciences, medicine, and the philosophy of science that all address the philosophical and scientific question of how design emerged in the natural world.

The problem of viability of hybrid systems is considered in this work.

A 'science of cities and regions' is critical for meeting future challenges.

In this book the theory of social production is systematically formulated in terms and concepts of classical political economy and neo-classical economics.

The underlying idea and motive for the book is that the notion of complexity may humanize the social sciences, may conceive the complex human being as more human, and turn reality as assumed in our doing social science into a more complex, that is a richer reality for all.

The conceptofspontaneous symmetry breaking plays a fundamental role in contemporary physics.

The implementation of Enterprise Networks or e-Networking is of paramount importance for organisations.

This edited collection reflects contemporary challenges faced by police forces across the globe and the role of technology in addressing them.

Over the last thirty years an abundance of papers have been writ- ten on adaptive dynamic control systems.

Non-linear stochastic systems are at the center of many engineering disciplines and progress in theoretical research had led to a better understanding of non-linear phenomena.

In times of general instability change management is a great challenge.

There has been significant interest for designing flight controllers for small-scale unmanned helicopters.

Rotor dynamics is an important branch of dynamics that deals with behavior of rotating machines ranging from very large systems like power plant rotors, for example, a turbogenerator, to very small systems like a tiny dentist's drill, with a variety of rotors such as pumps, compressors, steam/gas turbines, motors, turbopumps etc.

Simulation based on mathematical models plays a major role in computer aided design of integrated circuits (ICs).

In January 1937, Nobel laureate in Physics Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was recruited to the University of Chicago.

This is the second edition of the book "e;Thermodynamics of Fluids under Flow,"e; which was published in 2000 and has now been corrected, expanded and updated.

This contributed volume presents some of the latest research related to model order reduction of complex dynamical systems with a focus on time-dependent problems.

This book collects the latest research results on security-related advanced technologies.

The main objectives of this book are to expose key aspects that have a relevance when dealing with open data viewed from different perspectives and to provide appealing examples of how open data is implemented worldwide.

This book gathers selected research articles presented in the "e;6th International Conference on Mathematical Modelling, Applied Analysis and Computation (ICMMAAC)"e;, held at JECRC University, Jaipur, during August 3-5, 2023.

This book provides an inter-disciplinary introduction to the theory of random fields and its applications.

Forensic genetic technologies are popularly conceptualized and revered as important tools of justice.

This book describes the active vibration control techniques which have been developed to suppress excessive vibrations of structures.

This book expands the foundations of general systems theory to enable progress beyond the rich heuristic practices available today.

The most astounding development in information explosion has been the geometric expansion of trade, commerce, entertainment and information jointly known as the internet or the web.

The most astounding development in information explosion has been the geometric expansion of trade, commerce, entertainment and information jointly known as the internet or the web.

In the present book, the starting line is defined by a morphogenetic perspective on human communication and culture.

This volume is based on a multidisciplinary approach towards biological and chemical threats that can, and have been previously used in bioterrorism attacks around the globe.

This report aims to foster a better understanding on how to leverage the economic and social impacts of the implementation of the Internet into mobile devices to enable ubiquitous governments, sustain public sector innovation and transform public service delivery.

This book contains selected papers of NSC08, the 2nd Conference on Nonlinear Science and Complexity, held 28-31 July, 2008, Porto, Portugal.

This book is about Transparent Intensional Logic, the brainchild of Pavel Tichy.

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recently discovered advantages of amorphous forms of medicines/pharmaceutical products which focused a significant part of industry-related efforts on the GFA (Glass Forming Ability) and the glass temperature (T) versus pressure g dependences.

In recent years fractional calculus has played an important role in various fields such as mechanics, electricity, chemistry, biology, economics, modeling, identification, control theory and signal processing.

Nanoscale physics has become one of the rapidly developing areas of contemporary physics because of its direct relevance to newly emerging area, nanotechnologies.

The fast progress in many areas of research related to non-equilibrium ther- dynamics has prompted us to write a fourth edition of this book.

Arturo Carsetti According to molecular Biology, true invariance (life) can exist only within the framework of ongoing autonomous morphogenesis and vice versa.

Society heavily depends on infrastructure systems, such as road-traffic networks, water networks, electricity networks, etc.

The present volume includes most of the material of the invited lectures delivered at the NATO Advanced Study Institute "e;Morphogenesis through the interplay of nonlinear chemical instabilities and elastic active media"e; held from 2th to 14th July 2007 at the Institut d'Etudes Scientifiques de Cargese (http://www.